Libya, Algeria send medical team to Mozambique

A joint Libyan and Algerian medical team left Tripoli Thursday for Mozambique to help the country's flood victims, the pan-African news agency PANA.

The doctors, technicians and nurses carried a shipment of supplies, including drugs and equipment needed in the emergency that has befallen Mozambique in the aftermath of the floods.

This humanitarian gestures falls within the framework of a joint program between the two states aimed at helping the flood-stricken people in southern Africa.

Libya 5 March launched a three-day airlift of emergency supplies from Tripoli to Maputo.